After several years since I tried to look into my health care choices through healthcare.gov, I have just tried it again and again faced the requirement to submit certificate of citizenship as proof for being a citizen. Is this for real? The federal government cannot find in its records if someone is really a citizen, based on the name and social security of that person? After all this time thinking that unlike where one came from, here the existence of a person is not dependent on that person's keeping of a piece of paper, suddenly things reverse in this horrible way and for something that, unlike the social security number, one never told to memorize it or even take care of it. I also have never been asked to supply this document or any information from it ever before, and never occurred to me that I may, and I would be surprised if even very negligible percentage of naturalized citizens would report different experience. How could it be that we are not living at the stone age if the federal government is really that incompetent? Or is it that it chose to be this incompetent here?
(Note: I did not write this because this requirement makes me miss something. I do have that document in some storage closet I have, and there should be ample time to find it between here and April 12, the deadline for submitting it, if I want to apply).
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